Thanks for checking out our prelaunch site! Life360’s mission is simple: help families take care of life’s what-ifs, both large and small. Here is a brief introduction to our company:
What are we working on?
We are building a service that allows our customers to use the web to manage everything related to their family’s safety, security, and communications in one place. Sign up, fill out a quick profile, and then pick and choose from a variety of tools that can do everything from keeping your family connected after a major disaster to letting you know if your teenager misses curfew to getting instant help in an emergency situation to making sure that your toddler is always a button click away.
Interesting! Can you be a bit more specific?
We know that every family has its own unique concerns, so it is impossible to create a one-size-fits-all service that isn’t overwhelmingly complex. We solve this problem by providing our users with a single web portal that then allows them to choose from a set of tools, each of which addresses a specific need. Basically, we can ask you “what are the top 5 things you worry about” and we will probably have an application that takes care of each one.
Let’s take the example of the Smith family which consists of two parents, a teenager, a preschooler, a toddler, and a dog. The top five things the Smiths might worry about are the following:
1. Their toddler getting lost at the mall or park
2. The teenager going out and getting in trouble at night
3. Major natural disasters (the Smiths live in the San Francisco Bay Area, a high risk zone for earthquakes and wildfires)
4. Someone being in an accident and not getting the right care—or the family not finding out what happened
5. The dog running away
Each of these concerns can be directly addressed using a Life360 tool. For the Smith family, we would provide the following solutions: ... read more
Winning the Android Developer Challenge and the 24 Hour Homepage Turnaround
Welcome to the first blog post from Life360; it was our intent to use this space to talk about the company, but instead let me tell you about our last 24 hours. We were a Top 50 winner in Google's Android Developer Challenge, and were expecting the final round results sometime next week, when last night, we got a call giving us the excellent news that we were picked as one of the first place teams!
You can't imagine how excited we were – but then the reality quickly turned to panic when we realized that meant we needed to build a homepage within 24 hours. After a quick celebratory drink at Bear's Lair in Berkeley, we started bracing for a hectic day, and here is the result! If you look around you'll see a few holes here and there (please excuse us), but to the dev and design team, thanks for coming through in a pinch, and for everyone else, please check back frequently over the next few days as we add content.
If you are reading this, you are probably interested in our Android application. We'll try to post some more comprehensive screenshots later tonight or tomorrow and perhaps a video next week. I'm also very excited to do our "real" company introduction, because Android and mobile is only one piece of what we are about-so stay tuned!
We also are very curious to hear what you think. If you post a comment or shoot us an email I promise to get back to you. ...more